Queer urban theories

Abstract

Glitch epistemologies for computational cities provide a useful and important extension of the previous work of Elwood and Leszczynski, decentring the usual suspects that are the focus for (digital) urban critique (e.g. ‘smart cities’, ‘platforms’) by drawing on queer theory and illustrating what this might bring to approaching cities. It is this topic that this commentary will address, first by discussing what is meant by such a queer approach to the urban with glitch epistemologies, and second by considering how this approach can pose questions concerning the temporalities of urban change.